Shrink in the Kitchen

While he is no gourmand, my office staff of one, namely, Bello, provides free-spirited conversations relating chiefly to food.  It is, I think it fair to say, his main preoccupation.  Discussions, which tend to be one-sided, I’ll admit, nonetheless provide us both with a good feeling and a broad sense of well-being.  The refrigerator opens: [...]

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I’m sorry to say that red tide may be returning this spring and summer to New England.  In 2005, red tide showed up off the coast of New England.  The result?  A ban on shellfish.  Costly to the already beleaguered fishing industry which has high rates of unemployment.
According to a very informative article in Cape [...]

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What Duke Ellington said about music applies to food: “There are only two kinds of music.  Good music and bad music.”
Most days I don’t eat anything prepared outside my home.  It wasn’t always like that.  Back in the day, in Detroit, I’d get up at 4 A.M. on Saturday morning to drive to Eastern Market [...]

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Something I never quite understood until recently is why we have many Indian restaurants in this country, but so few Pakistani or Bengladeshi.  That’s hardly the case in the U.K. where one sees Pakistani curry shops next door to those selling food said to be Indian.  I wondered if it was that we have hardly [...]

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